PROS AND CONS OF DISCOVERY OF BLP LP or Brilliant Light Power, Inc., formerly known as 2006, BLP funding exceeded US$60 million. In December Blacklight Power, Inc. of Cranbury, New Jersey, USA, 2013, BLP was one of 54 applicants to receive US$1.1M grant was founded by Randell L Mills who claims to have from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. discovered a new energy source. This purported energy source is based on Mills’ assertion that the electron in a hydrogen Among the investors were PacifiCorp, Conectiv, retired atom can drop below the lowest energy state known as the executives from Morgan Stanley and several BLP Board ground state. Mills, who is now BLP’s Founder cum CEO, calls members like Shelby Brewer who was the top nuclear official these hypothetical hydrogen atoms which are in an energy for the Reagan Administration and CEO of ABB-Combustion state below ground level, “hydrinos.” Engineering Nuclear Power, and former Board member Michael H Jordan who was CEO of PepsiCo Worldwide Foods, The company which was earlier called HydroCatalysis Inc. Westinghouse Electric Corporation, CBS Corporation, and was founded in 1991 by Mills. He claims to have discovered Electronic Data Systems. In 2008, Robert L Park wrote that a power source that represents “boundless form of new BLP had benefited from wealthy investors who allocate a primary energy which will replace proportion of their funds to risky ventures with a potentially all forms of fuel in the world.” huge upside, but that in the case of BLP since the science In 2008, Mills was reported to underlying the offering was "just wrong" the investment risk have said that his cell stacks was, in Park's view, "infinite." could provide power for long-range electric vehicles, The “Unbelievers” (from Publications) and that this electricity New Journal of Physics would cost less than two In 2005, Andreas Rathke of the European Space Agency, cents per kilowatt-hour. publishing in the New Journal of Physics, wrote that Mills' BLP holds several patents description of quantum mechanics is "inconsistent and has based on graphic several serious deficiencies," and that there was "no theoretical modelling software. support of the hydrino hypothesis." Rathke said it would be helpful if Mills' experimental results could be independently Funding replicated, and suggested that any evidence produced should By December be reconsidered in the context of a conventional physical 1999, BLP had explanation. One inconsistency regards its inability to be raised more reconciled with the probability density function in quantum than US$25 mechanics. Rathke stated, "However, while solutions of the million from Schrödinger equation with n<1 indeed exist, they are not about 150 square integrable. This violates not only an axiom of quantum investors. mechanics, but in practical terms prohibits that these solutions By January can in any way describe the probability density of a particle." Journal of Applied Physics Power (BLP), founded 17 years ago as HydroCatalysis, In 2005, the Journal of Applied Physics published a critique announced last week that the company had successfully by A V Phelps of the 2004 article, "Water bath calorimetric tested a prototype power system that would generate 50 KW study of excess heat generation in resonant transfer plasmas" of thermal power. BLP anticipates delivery of the new power by J Phillips, R Mills and X Chen. Phelps criticized both the system in 12 to 18 months. The BLP process, discovered calorimetric techniques and the underlying theory described by Randy Mills, is said to coax hydrogen atoms into a "state in the Phillips/Mills/Chen article. The journal also published a below the ground state" called the "hydrino." There is no response to Phelps' critique on the same day. independent scientific confirmation of the hydrino, and BLP has a patent problem. So they have nothing to sell but bull Physics Letters A shit. The company is therefore dependent on investors with In 2006, a paper published in Physics Letters A, concluded that deep pockets and shallow brains." Mills' theoretical hydrino states are unphysical. For the hydrino states, the binding strength increases as the strength of the Steven Chu electric potential decreases, with maximum binding strength In 1999, Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1997, said, when the potential has disappeared completely. The author "It's extremely unlikely that this is real, and I feel sorry for the Norman Dombey remarked, "We could call these anomalous funders, the people who are backing this." states "homeopathic" states because the smaller the coupling, the larger the effect." The model also assumes that the nuclear Phillip Anderson charge distribution is a point rather than having an arbitrarily In 1999, Princeton University's physics Nobel laureate Phillip small non-zero radius. It also lacks an analogous solution in Anderson said of it, "If you could fuck around with the hydrogen the Schrödinger equation, which governs non-relativistic atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the systems. sun. You could fuck around with life itself. Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why Dombey concluded: "We suggest that outside of science I'm so sure that it's a fraud." fiction this is sufficient reason to disregard them." From a suggestion in Dombey's paper, further work by Antonio Wolfgang Ketterle Di Castro has shown that states below the ground state, Wolfgang Ketterle, a professor of physics at MIT, said BLP's as described in Mills' work, are incompatible with the claims are "nonsense" and that "there is no state of hydrogen Schrödinger, Klein–Gordon and Dirac equations, key lower than the ground state." equations in the study of quantum systems. Michio Kaku Journal of Physics D Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist based at City University of In 2008, the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics published New York, adds that "the only law that this business with Mills an article by Hans-Joachim Kunze, professor emeritus at the is proving is that a fool and his money are easily parted" and Institute for Experimental Physics, Ruhr University Bochum, that "There's a sucker born every minute." critical of the 2003 paper authored by R Mills and P Ray, Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of helium–hydrogen. The Peter Zimmerman abstract of the article is: "It is suggested that spectral lines, on While Peter Zimmerman was chief arms-control scientist at which the fiction of fractional principal quantum numbers in the State Department, he stated that his department and the hydrogen atom is based, are nothing else but artefacts." the Patent Office "have fought back with success" against Kunze stated that it was impossible to detect the novel "pseudoscientists" and he railed against, among other things, lines below 30 nm reported by Mills and Ray because the the inventors of "hydrinos." equipment they used did not have the capability to detect them as per the manufacturer and as per "every book on Legal threats to Physicists vacuum-UV spectroscopy" and "therefore the observed lines In 2000, a law firm engaged by BLP sent letters to four must be artefacts". Kunze also stated that: "The enormous prominent physicists asking them to stop making what it spectral widths of the novel lines point to artefacts, too.” called "defamatory comments." The physicists had been quoted in the Village Voice, Dow Jones Newswire and other IEEE Spectrum publications as dismissing BLP's claims on the basis that they In 2009, IEEE Spectrum magazine criticized BLP, concluding violated the laws of physics. In response, one of the physicists, that "Most experts don't believe such lower states exist, and Robert L Park of the American Physical Society, said that if BLP they say the experiments don't present convincing evidence." sued, he was confident the scientific community would lend It also pointed out that BLP has made similar claims before, its support and that the court would side with the physicists. announcing that it was on the brink of commercializing its Park later wrote that a number of the recipients of the letter, revolutionary technology but failed to deliver. who had "responded honestly to questions from the media" had since fallen silent. Scientists, Park wrote, are easy to The “Unbelievers” (by Opinions) intimidate since they are not rich enough to risk costly legal Robert L. Park actions. Since 1999, Robert L. Park, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Maryland and a notable skeptic, has been BLP’s Advisory Board particularly critical of BLP. In 2008, Park wrote: "BlackLight The BLP Advisory Board’s formation was announced at Cranbury, New Jersey on 13 December 2016. The Advisory to boot. The novel techniques, materials and processes Board consists of senior industry executives and includes developed by BrLP in the last few years are making this new Colin Bannon from BT, Bill Maurer from ABM Industries, Ray source of energy a reality for all mankind. The rest, however Gogel, former President of Current Group and US Grid Co., painful it will be for many in the natural sciences, will follow.” Matt Key, CEO of Everynet and three additional executives from Telecoms, Finance and Legal professions. Prof Dr Peter Mark Jansson and Dr K V Ramanujachary One of the validators, Bucknell Professor Dr Peter Mark “We searched extensively to identify Advisors that can help Jansson PE remarked, “An objective review of the progress us answer some of the big questions to support our SunCell BrLP has made over the past decade in the development of commercial launch next year,” said Mills. “This is a team their proprietary hydrogen-based technology indicates that of senior executives from future customers, partners and they have achieved an understanding of the fundamental advisory groups that will help us shape what we offer and parameters that must be controlled to create a sustainable and how we offer it as we prepare to go to market.” energetic reaction of their atomic hydrogen fuel and catalysts.